Well, perhaps the aircraft was flown through a hangar for the exterior shots, and I do believe you’re correct there, but the interior shots of the full and busy hangar and the plane flying through is clearly a mock-up on a dolly.
My “The Official James Bond Movie Book” (Hamlyn, 1987) confirms the pilot of the BD-5 was Corkey Fornof of Louisiana, USA. It refers to the plane as an Acrostar
Watching the DVD extras on this film and it states:
The mock up was mounted on a pole attached to a cut down partly camoflaged Jaguar car and driven through the hangar. The shot where it bursts through the door is done with a model of the near edge of the hangar close up shielding the exterior of the real hangar.
The Jet Ranger G-BAKS used to drop Blofeld down the chimney survived until fairly recently. It crashed and was written off. By all accounts they drop 4-5 dummies and wheelchairs down that chimney,
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